There's a right time and a wrong time to exploit a vulnerability – and according to researchers from the University of Michigan, that's something that can be worked out ahead of time.
According to this paper Timing of cyber conflict, available from PNAS, knowing exactly when to launch a digital assault is something that can be …

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The Great Game is just begun for the New Year. GOD knows what the Big Picture will bring in 2015

While none of this will come as a surprise to experts in the field, the aim of the Axelrod-Iliev paper seems to be to help policy-level people understand the cyber-attack landscape with a minimum of technical grasp.

Understanding it is one thing .... being able to do anything at all to mitigate or steer a cyber-attack, is something completely different, and in an increasingly well connected global metadatabase, a vector/sector which is growing with/in intelligence at a prodigious, and most likely, uncatchable rate.